Anyone try out the new Aradus Barrel yet?

[Xzion]

the part im curious about, how fun is that going to be to clean after awhile... im sure a lot of goo and maybe even dirt wouldnt be a good thing being stuck down in that little groove. Lets hope they compinsated for it in some way shape or form.

[felony]

i have read that you are NOT to clean it internally.

either you must send it in or do it on your own, but if you do it on your own it sounds impossible.

ive never used freak or aradus.

aradus sounds like a better idea, but technically speaking the freak would probably be better because of its simplicity..

dan h

[TheMagMan]

Here is a link to a search from paintball city about the Aradus barrel.

I need to give my mag a valve overhaul before I can do any testing myself.


http://forums.paintballcity.com/sear...by=&sortorder=

[TheMagMan]

Originally posted by Eric Kessler
President
Psycho Ballistics Inc. on CountyPaintball.com's site
Hello, This is Eric from Psycho Ballistics Inc. and I am here to give you my word this is going to be the best shooting barrel you have ever shot. I know there are some questions about the slot in the barrel so let me clear this up: The barrel does not break paint.
In fact PMI did a test on this barrel and said no matter how hard they tried to break a ball they could not. Now I don't want to make the claim that you will never break a ball with this barrel but it should be less than any other barrel out there. Let me tell you how this works. The slot has rounded corners on the edge so it will not cut a ball. Now, because the slot is there, this helps in two ways: One, it gives a place for the ball to expand into under the impact of the air hitting it when the gun is fired so the ball wont explode. Two, now that the ball has expanded into the slot it cannot spin making the ball fly much straighter than a normal barrel. I know everyone may think that a spinning ball is better but think of it this way- the flatline puts a spin on the ball and works well when the barrel is being shot level, but when you tilt the flatline the ball will curve out of control. Well, with a straight barrel there is no way to control the spin (and trust me your barrel will put some kind of spin on the ball, you know this when you shoot a ball and it curves) but we can take the spin off the ball with a straight barrel. One way is the slot and the other is slightly crushing down on the ball with the adjustable bore and because of it being one barrel you can adjust the barrel while you are shooting it so you can see the difference.

Now on to the cleaning:
We know you will sometimes chop a ball and get paint in the barrel. NOT A PROBLEM under PMI's testing. (I am giving you things from their report on ours even though our testing reports are the same.) They said it only took 3 shots to shoot through the break with no more breaks. The barrel may retain a small amount of paint in the slot but not enough to affect the ball. So how do you clean out the small amount of paint you ask? Easy, if you are at the field a squeegee will get 95% of what little was there and when you get a chance run water through it. All the internal hardware is stainless steel and is heavily coated with grease so you wont hurt a thing. We do not recommend you take the barrel apart. There are a lot of very small parts inside that can get lost. I hope this helps clear up some things. This is what happens when a company does to a barrel what everyone has always said not to do and not only makes it work but work better than anything else out there.
Thank you for your time.
Eric Kessler
President
Psycho Ballistics Inc.

[kemikos]

OK, so he claims the ball will squeeze into the slot while firing and keep it from spinning...

Didn't Tom Kaye do a test at one point that showed that a paintball doesn't deform at all when fired? If I'm remembering correctly, the slot wouldn't do a thing, since the ball won't be compressed into it.

And if I'm wrong, and the ball will squeeze into the slot, it won't keep the paintball from spinning entirely. The paintball will still be able to spin in line with the slot. So if the ball does spin, at least it'll be consistent. Or something.

I guess this is one of those things... It may work, I'm not saying it won't; but I'll believe it when I see it.